The rise of the prince

Chapter 876 Enthroned
The Kingdom of Xia was destroyed, and the world was shaken.

The news spread very quickly, and by mid-June, all Xiaguozhou counties east of Helan Mountain had surrendered, and officials transferred from Hedong had arrived in succession.

On the other side, Liu Ji's army has marched into Guazhou, controlling Xiliang Prefecture, Ganzhou and other places, and many Uighur tribes in the Hexi Corridor. The Shatuo people surrendered, and it is estimated that they will be able to reach Yumen Pass in autumn.

With the inclusion of many territories, the aftermath has become extremely troublesome. Among other things, the troops began to be stretched.

Now that the northwest is occupied, the local soldiers are temporarily unreliable. The key is to keep soldiers, and only trustworthy soldiers and officials.

The land to the east of Helan Mountain and the Hexi Corridor (Gansu and Shaanxi) was included in the territory by Wei Qing and Huo Qubing successively from the Han Dynasty. It has been governed for a very long time. The characters are similar and the customs are similar. The difficulty of governance is not too great.

But going west after Helan Mountain is even more difficult to govern. If he retreats and abandons the Western Regions, he will feel relaxed, but he will also feel uneasy, and future generations will lose all the excuses they have had since ancient times.

If you give up, the efforts of the previous dynasty to manage the Western Regions will be in vain.

Li Xingzhou thought about it, and wanted to keep Zhe Weizhong and Liu Jilai in charge of Hetao and Hexi Corridor, and at the same time continue to think about the expansion of the Western Regions.

Biao Zhe Weizhong was the Jiedu envoy of Hexi Road, Biao Liu Ji was the general of the town, Qinfeng Road and Yumen Road (set up by Li Xingzhou himself, governing the four counties of the Hexi Corridor, Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang) two Jiedu envoys.

At the same time, Liu Ji was appointed as the ambassador of the pacification system in the northwest, and the military power in his hand will not be taken back for the time being.

Then came all kinds of appeasement and placement of officials.

After the imperial court got the news, the whole country celebrated. The emperor issued a commendation order. According to his request, some young and hard-working officials were successively dispatched to take over the land of Hetao, manage and seize the territory.

Afterwards, until the end of the spring of the third year, Li Xingzhou lived in Xiaguo Palace to handle affairs and stabilize the place.

Naturally, during this period, there were a lot of things going on every day. By accident, Qifang became pregnant
Alas, there is no way, Qifang seduces him all day long in the desolate northwest, and he waved his big hand at the Harem of Xia Kingdom, rewarding the soldiers, and in the end he was forced to do nothing but follow Qifang.

Li Xingzhou took advantage of the power of the army and the army was still there, and directly carried out the land reform of "dividing the land into acres" in Hetao and Hexi. Facing the Jing army, they have no power to fight back, and can only be slaughtered.

And after more than a year of rectification, the people have slowly come to appreciate the power of Jingguo's policy, and found that under Jingguo, they are far better off than under Xiaguo, their burdens are lighter, and their lives are better.

The powerful families whose interests have been harmed have no way to resist even if they want to resist at this time. Power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and many big families participated in the war. The children of the family suffered heavy casualties under Liu Ji's attack and lost their foundation.

Then the New Deal was implemented, and it was difficult for the big clan to sit on too much land and grow bigger. The number of vassal farmers decreased, and their strength weakened again.

As a result, Jingguo's rule in the west became more and more stable.

At the end of spring, Yang Wenguang was appointed General of the Fuguo, Jiedu envoy of Hedong, and returned to Hedong.

Li Xingzhou also returned to Kaiyuan with Di Zhi's navy, and at the same time sent the pregnant Qifang back to the palace, leaving Wei Yubai in charge of Xia's affairs, and Yan Shen leading the army.

After returning to Beijing, Di Zhi was formally appointed as a privy envoy to the post of Taiwei to lead the new army. After returning to the palace for a few months of reunion, Li Xingzhou discussed the situation with the emperor, and then went west again to sit in the Xingqing mansion.

Liu Ji continued to send back good news in the front. By the end of autumn, the entire Hexi Corridor up to Yumen Pass had been occupied by Liu Ji's army.

Since then, Li Xingzhou has dreamed for many years, and the dream that Jing Guo could not have dreamed of has come true.

With the Hexi Corridor, the Western Regions will also be infiltrated, but Li Xingzhou is not ready to use force immediately, he needs several years, or even more than ten years to slowly complete his great cause.

By the winter of that year, the area from the east of Helan Mountain to the Yellow River, plus the Hexi Corridor, had been firmly under control.

That kind of satisfaction doesn't need others to sing praises, and there is a sense of propriety in my heart.

Dali, Cochin is still waiting for him to solve it.

Fortunately, he now has an invincible army, and his future battles will be smoother.

In the winter of Zhangwu Yuan, Li Xingzhou had basically controlled the territory of the original Xia Kingdom and the Hexi Corridor. Many tribes headed by the Uighurs active in the Hexi Corridor were willing to attach themselves. In fact, some of them paid tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty from the beginning. It has been a habit since the Han Dynasty. Whoever is powerful in the Central Plains will bring local specialties to worship.

But now, the Eastern Dynasty once again opened up the Hexi Corridor after more than [-] years, and the soldiers fronted until Yumen Pass.

In the winter of that year, many princes and nobles from the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions brought gifts to visit him at the foot of Helan Mountain. They saw Jing Junjun along the way, and they were even more respectful when they arrived at Xingqing Mansion.

Li Xingzhou also understood that it was almost time for this place to return to the dynasty.

After meeting the nobles from all over the world, he recalled Liu Ji who was stationed in Guazhou, changed Xingqing Mansion to Yinchuan Mansion, handed over all major affairs to Liu Ji, and personally instructed him on many things.

Li Xingzhou had his own ideas for keeping Liu Ji. Among the people he trusted, Di Zhi, Liu Ji, and Shen Lin were the only ones who could take charge of their own affairs.

As for guarding the Hexi Corridor and the land under Helan Mountain, Li Xingzhou felt that Liu Ji was the most suitable.

His ambitions don't stop there. Among the three, Liu Ji has the most courageous and desperate spirit. If Jing Guo wants to expand westward and restore the control of the Western Regions like the Han and Tang Dynasties, he needs to dare to forge ahead, dare to fight and dare to fight. Fighting people.

The situation in the Western Regions is complicated, and it needs people who are decisive and capable of fighting to guard it.

Therefore, it was finally decided to keep Liu Ji in charge, and Li Xingzhou allowed him to recruit the local Xiang army for training, and left a new division of the army at his disposal.

After having firearms, as long as he masters the training of firearms, he will be able to form a unit that can crush the cold weapon army in a short time, and the decentralization of power to the localities will be more generous, because Li Xingzhou knows that at this time, the balance of war has begun to tilt heavily towards him.

It is no longer like in the past, every counterinsurgency is a thrilling gamble.

As long as the central government maintains a strong new army, the control over the localities will be incomparably stable.

With this kind of control, he also wants to accompany his army and continue to expand outward.

In the spring of the fourth year of Zhangwu, Li Xingzhou returned to Kaiyuan after handing over all the Northwest affairs to Liu Ji.

He was greeted by a prosperous and lively Kaiyuan and enthusiastic Kaiyuan people.

In May of that year, the emperor abdicated on the grounds of poor health and lack of energy, and was succeeded by the emperor's grandson Li Xingzhou.

This day came naturally, so that people were not so surprised. The ministers and the common people had long been looking forward to the succession of Mrs. Huang, and Li Xingzhou's prestige was already in full swing.

After Li Xingzhou ascended the throne, he first knelt down to worship the first emperor, and then led his officials to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth. Countries in the north and south, Jiaozhi, Dali, Baiyi, Jin, Mongolia, and Korea sent envoys to congratulate and bring important principles.

In June of that year, one month after ascending the throne, Emperor Li Xingzhou appointed Yu as empress. Ya yo guards against the courtiers becoming bigger, so the Yu family who has no background and no support is the best choice.

Later, Queen Lianshan, the grandson of Wang Yue, was made the noble concubine, He Zhao's daughter He Qian was the concubine Shu, Yelu Yali, the daughter of Yelu Dashigan, was the concubine De, and Pu Chaling, the daughter of King Puchayi of the Kingdom of Jin, was the virtuous concubine.

In mid-June, the prince of Dali Kingdom visited the capital again after decades, and asked to be merged into Jing Kingdom.

The reason why they are like this is firstly that they agree with the Central Plains Dynasty, and secondly that the ruler can no longer control the big and minority ethnic groups in various places. At the beginning of Jingguo’s founding, they had requested to merge into Jingguo, but at that time the court felt that Dali was too far away, and There are many ethnic groups in the interior, and it is very troublesome to take over. I don't agree.

But now that Li Xingzhou is in charge of the country, Jing Guo is not what it used to be.

So Li Xingzhou agreed to the request of the king of Dali, named the king of Dali the king of Zhennan, and agreed to bring Dali under his rule. Commander Shen Lin led three infantry divisions of the new army, and took more than 300 officials and the prince of Dali to the south to take over Dali.

In early March, Zhenguo General Liu Ji also brought great news. The Jing army defeated the allied forces of the Gaochang Uyghurs in the Western Regions outside Yumen Pass and beheaded 400 people. Many tribes surrendered one after another.

(End of this chapter)