It's late at night.

I was sleepy but still had no trace of it.

Emperor Li Yin sat in front of the imperial desk. Although he was tired but he was not sleepy. After reading a few memorials, he couldn't read them.

The state affairs were complicated, and it was not as good as the emperor's irritability and insomnia. It had been fourteen years since he succeeded to the throne. Li Yin had purged the senate school and had long been in power. In recent years, the Tang Dynasty fought against the east and west, and was very powerful.

Years of war did not weaken the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, but instead was in a state of continuous improvement, with national strength stronger than Zhenguan.

The third expedition against Xiqi was very smooth. The Privy Councilor Li Ji joined forces with Cheng Yaojin from Hebei and Niu Jinda from western Liaoning to the north along the Tuhe River (Laoha River). In the direction of the direction, there were a total of 200,000 elite Tang troops, plus Tiele, Turks and other prisoners, Xiqi retreated step by step. Now the front line is victorious, the remnants of Xiqi's defeat have escaped the Huangshui River (Xilamulun River) and fled into the territory of the Wu tribe.

The Xi tribe had long been a banned governor's office under the Beida Governor's Office in Datang Town. Faced with the defeated Xi Qi tribe who fled over, the Xi tribe sent troops to intercept him without hesitation. Many livestock were robbed and many people were damaged, and the two Xi tribes, who had to flee north of the West Liao River, west of the Nenjiang River, south of the Taoer River, and east of the Daxianbei Mountains (Korqin Grassland).

This place is also the last territorial area of ​​Xiqi's two ministries. At that time, Xi and Khitan were loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and the two governors' offices were established by the Tiankang Khan.

The downstream of Huangshui is also called Raoleshui (Xi Liaohe River). The Xiqi tribes who retreated here have been severely damaged and are in panic and have no strength to resist the Tang Dynasty. They originally hoped that the Mohe tribes in the northeast would rebel against the Tang Dynasty, but the Mohe tribes were also defeated step by step under the attack of Niu Jinda in Liaodong.

The Tang Dynasty established the Bohai Grand Governor's Office in the old land of Marine. It was bounded by Sumo River (traveling south of Songhua River). The Sumo River, Huhan River (Mudanjiang), and Nahe (Songhua River) basins all entered the Bohai Grand Governor's Office, and several military towns were established, all along the river and coast.

Hei Shui Protectorate was even established in the farther Hei Shui (Heilongjiang) basin, and the tribes were subject to ruling the tribes.

Although there were many Marines, they were located in a remote and cold place, and their tribes were always loose. When the Sumo Tribe Alliance near Liaodong was defeated and conquered by the Tang army, the other Marine tribes farther away were unable to resist at all, and they were not even willing to resist the Tang Dynasty.

Because the Hei Shui and other tribes were quite obedient and tactful, and because of Niu Jinda's strong advice, he believed that the Tang Dynasty now set the land where the Sumo tribe alliance was based as the Bohai Grand Governor's Office and included it in the rule. As for the more distant and colder tribes such as Hei Shui, it would be better to establish or incorporate it into the rule of the throne.

Finally, with the suggestions given by the Privy Council and the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, Li Yin agreed to establish the Heishui Protectorate and the Wei Protectorate, and respectively ruled the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, the upper reaches of Heilongjiang and the upper reaches of Nenjiang.

The two major prophets are each in charge of thirty-six governors' offices, more than one hundred prefectures and hundreds of counties.

Li Yin originally wanted to completely exterminate the two divisions of Xi Qi who were already poor and desperate, but the two divisions of Xi Qi who were desperate had their own internal conflicts. First, the Khitans senated and divided the remaining tribes of the Xi people while the chaos was in trouble, and the brothers who were originally fighting side by side were swallowed up by them all at once.

Then the eight Khitan tribes were still unstable.

Everyone blamed the current dilemma on the leader of the Dahe clan who led everyone to rebel against the Tang Dynasty. Originally, when everyone opposed the Tang Dynasty, they also made a decision to convene an alliance tribal meeting, but now all the tribes represented by the Yaonian clan blamed the Dahe clan.

The Dahe family was originally strong, so they were elected as the leader of the Khitan by the Tang Dynasty, awarded the title of the governor of Songmo, and given the surname. However, in the three anti-Tang wars, the Dahe family also suffered the greatest loss of strength. At this time, the Dahe family was no longer as strong as the Yaonian family.

After a dark night melee, the Khitan Khan who abandoned the national surname Li and changed back to the Dahe surname was cut off his head by the Yaonian soldier in the night fire.

The noble leaders of the Dahe tribe were almost killed, and the young and strong man could not escape, leaving only children and women who were no higher than the wheel. The Yaonian tribe also divided the population, livestock, slaves and property of the Dahe tribe.

After a big chaos, only five of the original eight tribes of the Daha clan alliance were left. In addition to the Daha clan, two tribes with close relationships with the Daha clan were also popular and annexed.

The leader of the Yaonian clan sent his brothers to take the leaders of Khitan and Xi Khan and surrendered to the south to ask Li Ji for surrender, and also began to rebuild the alliance.

Li Ji reported to the court that he advised him to accept the surrender of the Khitan to prevent them from fighting against the trapped beasts. The two were also because of the court's relentless attack on Xi Qi, which made Tiele, Shi Wei and other Hu in Mobei feel sad and feel sad, and they all pleaded for the two tribes.

Li Ji believed that keeping Xi Qi's two minions could serve as a buffer for the Tang Dynasty and Shi Wei.

Shiwei is believed to be the main body of the Xianbei Yuwen tribe and is a descendant of the Donghu. Today, the large tribes have five major tribe alliances, which are divided into the North and South Shiwei. There are about twenty-five tribes and alliances in the South Shiwei, and the North Shiwei has nine tribe alliances.

Although Shi Wei's strength is far inferior to Turks, Tiele, or even Xi Qi, after all, the Earth-Bang tribe, the Huangtou Shi Wei tribe, which is located at the confluence of Songhua River and Nenjiang River, has 30,000 households and a population of nearly 200,000, and its strength cannot be underestimated.

Compared with the Turkic Tiel and other tribes that were conquered by the Tang Dynasty, although the Wei tribes had already had tribute dealings with the Central Plains, they were far apart in the past, so they did not have much strength to control them.

Li Ji suggested that since Xi Qi has now been in civil strife, it is better to place them on the grassland where they are now staying, which is at the intersection of Shiwei, Mohe and Liaodong.

Of course, it is not simply to accept surrender.

The leader of the eight Khitan tribes, the Dahe clan, had been destroyed, and the other two were also destroyed, and the Xi clan was directly annexed by the Khitan. Now the court can accept the surrender of the Khitan, on the one hand, they were allowed to spit out the swallowed Xi tribes, the court selected the pro-Tang faction, restored the Xi tribes, and rebuilt the eight Xi tribes, but they were not allowed to return to the original Raole Governor's Office, the Luanhe River Basin, and directly let them and the Khitan settle in their current location, divide them into two, and divide them and govern them.

For the five existing Khitan tribes, the court could grant Yao Nian Quli the chief of the Yao Nian clan as the governor, and the court still asked them to build eight more tribes.

However, in order to better differentiate and control Xi Qi, the court should further differentiate and weaken them. The first way is to divide the current small area into two, set up the Raole Governor's Office and Songmo Governor's Office, and enthrone the governors of the two tribes.

Then, in these two governors' offices, they are divided into eight, with eight states each.

This is not the end, because we have to avoid the two strong leaders of the two tribes being granted the position of governor of the Tang Dynasty and rebel against the Tang Dynasty in the future. Therefore, the Yaonian clan was selected, and the Duji tribe replaced the former Khitan Dahe clan and the Xi Ahui tribe as leaders.

This is not enough. As the Yaonian clan was appointed as the governor of the Jijie Songmo, he chose two other tribes with similar strength to the Yaonian clan, and they were appointed as the chief and Sima, and they were responsible for finance and taxation and military affairs. In this way, as the governor of the Jijie, the Yaonian clan had only administrative power.

However, the eight tribes themselves set up a state with their own locations, and the leaders of each tribe were also the governor of the state. Therefore, the Yaonian clan, as the governor, had limited jurisdiction over each state.

What's more, after the imperial court annexed the old land of the former Raole and Songmo Governor's Office, it newly established the Grand Ding Governor's Office and included it in the western Liaoning Road. This reduced version of the new Raole and Songmo Governor's Office was also under the jurisdiction of the western Liaoning Road.

In this way, half of the Korqin grassland was divided into Xiraole Governor's Office and Khitan Songmo Governor's Office, and further divided into sixteen states. The remaining tens of thousands of Xichi tribes will undoubtedly make the situation more complicated in the future, not to mention that there are Bai Shi, Huangtou Shiwei, Sumo Mohe, two Tang troops in western and eastern Liaodong, as well as Xichi who had already joined the Dading Governor's Office.

There is a grassland about 500 miles from north to south, east and west, and there are either mountains or rivers on all sides. There are many neighbors around it, so it is difficult to expand outward. When the door is closed, it is difficult to join the sixteen tribes of the two tribes.

Li Yin thought for a long time and finally accepted Li Ji's suggestion. According to this plan, he surrendered Xi Qi, and conferred the strongest leaders of the two tribes as the governors. He also selected two strong parts of the two tribes to be appointed as the chief of the Governor's Office and Sima, and divided the power to lead the wealth army.

Of course, Li Yin was not a kind emperor. He granted the governors of the two tribes. The six tribes, the chief and Sima, were both national surnames, and at the same time, they also gave Han surnames to the other ten tribes.

At the same time, Li Ji led his troops north to draw boundaries for the sixteen tribes, hold an alliance, and swear all loyalty to the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, he asked the two tribes for the rebellion. All the people from the two tribes were demoted to slaves and brought back to the Central Plains. At the same time, the sixteen tribes of the two tribes also sent protons to the Tang Dynasty and handed over cattle, horses, camels and sheep as a sign of loyalty.

Anyway, he can save two tribes and one life, but he must first peel off a layer of skin.

In the end, the two tribes who were half dead were left to guard the border for the Tang Dynasty.

"It's getting late, so let's take a break soon!"

The eunuch Gao Hu was careful to advise.

But Li Yin asked him to pass on tea.

"It's so late, and it's even harder to fall asleep after drinking tea. It's better to let Yushenfang have some late-night snacks."

"Um."

Li Yin was more energetic now, so he picked up a few memorials to read. Yin Anguo, the chief of the Luzon Coin Supervision, made an advance report. Qin Lang, the King of Qi, had agreed to pay back the power of minting and handed over the Luzon Coin Supervision to the court for operation. Seeing this, Li Yin was a little surprised.

Facing the teacher Qin Lang, who was only eight years older than him, Li Yin never dared to be careless. He admired Qin Lang's wisdom even more. What made him even more admired was that Qin Lang was always very sober. Whether it was the Zhenguan or the Kaiyuan dynasty, he had never seen him floating by.

Even at the beginning of Kaiyuan, he did not rely on the ability to establish a certain policy, so he stayed in the center and refused to leave. Instead, he was very sober and took the opportunity to escape early.

Li Yin was always afraid and wary of such a teacher.

It was agreed that the right to mint the coins was taken to the court, but Li Yin still asked Yin Anguo to negotiate with Luzon in private first, and did not issue a direct order. Fortunately, Qin Lang's reaction still satisfies him, so he actually handed over the Luzon coins minting supervisor directly?

This is the super coin minting 3 million coins a year. The coins minted by a Luzon coin are more than the sum of dozens of coin minting minting minting in the rest of the court.

Continue reading, Yin Anguo reported that Luzon had indeed handed over the money supervision, but many craftsmen and machines had been removed.

It was not demolished to other places in Luzon to build a mint for private mint, but it might have been transported to the Qin family's concession free port in Japan, Linyi and other places, where it strengthened its coin minting capabilities there.

The Qin family also had a mint outside Luzon, which Li Yin actually knew about before, but the overseas mints were very small. In addition to minting Kaiyuan Tang coins, it is said that they would also mint some other coins and gifts, and even mints with pure gold and silver coins or ingots, tins, etc.

Li Yin's brows frowned inertially and often frowned, which made the emperor in his forties have a deep Sichuan-shaped pattern on his forehead.

Qin Lang's approach is actually understandable. After all, the amount of coins worth millions a year is minted by millions of coins, and the profit of coins alone is hundreds of thousands of coins. There is another year to consume an astonishing amount of copper and iron and iron, and millions of gold and silver. This has a great impact on the Qin family's mining and smelting industry.

It even provides strong support for the Qin family's financial industry.

Now that the Qin family is going to hand over, the Qin family has suffered a lot of losses. Now it is normal to transfer some craftsmen and machines overseas. If the Qin family keeps handing over the money jail and then does nothing, Li Yin will be uneasy.

If you transfer, just transfer. Anyway, as long as the court strengthens the crackdown on private casting in the future and strengthens the control of gold, silver, copper and iron, even if the Qin family can still build several mints overseas, without raw materials, they will not be able to cast much money, and it will not affect the court.

The Qin family's minting amount of three million coins a year was the cooperation of the court's policy, which transformed countless iron materials into copper, supported the Qin family with a large amount of copper materials, and even allowed the Qin family to mine and smelted copper and iron instead of turning over to the court, but to use it directly.

Once the Qin family did not have these policy support from the court, the gold, silver, copper and iron that the Qin family mined on their own in the future could not go to sea, and could only be taxed and purchased by the court. Then, although the Qin family's ability to mine and smelte were still profitable, they could no longer provide important raw materials for their coins.

Thinking of this, Li Yin smiled.

The two evils are balanced and the lighter.

I think this result was a helpless decision made by Qin Lang after repeated thoughts.

Over the years, Li Yin felt that both of them were actually doing the same thing, which was to actively forge ahead. The difference was that he led the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to conquer Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Xi, Khitan, and Mohe, and annexed Danlu and Gaya, and opened thousands of miles southwest.

Qin Lang, with his vassals of Luzon, continued to expand overseas, conquered the Luzon Islands, divided the retainers and knights, and even established many concessions and colonies in various overseas countries.

In essence, there is little difference, it is all expansion.

Li Yin felt that his record was stronger.

Of course, Qin Lang was able to build a pretty good maritime kingdom with the foundation of Luzon in twenty years, which really proved Qin Lang's ability again.

This is indeed a talent who can maintain peace and stability in the country, the kind that can be produced every five hundred years.

In comparison, Changsun Wuji is far inferior, short-sighted and ignorant of the current affairs.
Chapter completed!