In the eleventh year of Qianning, Shangyuan Festival.

Chang'an, Taiji Palace.

This year's Shangyuan Festival is much larger than before, and not only the feudal towns that still maintain a certain degree of independence have sent people to participate, but also many foreign envoys.

These included envoys from the states of Silla, Bohai, Dongying, Nanzhao, Dongxi, Heichezimurowei, Xizhou Uighurs, Zhongyunbu, and Khotan.

Its Middle East Xi, Heichezi Room Wei, and Zhongyun Department are even more willing to belong to Datang, which makes Li Ye Longyan happy.

Moreover, during the banquet, the people sent by Li Hong presented prisoners to Li Ye in front of a group of envoys.

This captive was naturally a Khitan captive, although Yelu Hulu was replaced, but many of the remaining Khitan captives were escorted to Chang'an to participate in this captive ceremony.

This sacrifice of prisoners was quite shocking to Bohai, Dongxi and Heichezimurowei, because they bordered the Khitan and knew the strength of the Khitan.

Seeing the suppressed expressions of these Fanbang envoys, Li Ye was naturally very satisfied.

Of course, he won't give these envoys a reward or anything like the previous emperors. If you are a vassal state, then you have to be a vassal state, and you have to pay tribute to the suzerain, otherwise you don't have to be a vassal state.

Whether these Fanbang envoys will be disappointed or something, it is none of Li Ye's business. He's not a local tyrant, he wants to rob, right?

After the end of the Shangyuan Festival, the imperial court began to resume operation. In view of Lu Long's victory in the war, the imperial court began to reward meritorious deeds, canonize meritorious ministers, and adjust the layout of the imperial court for Lu Long and outside the Saiwai.

First of all, Li Hong was canonized as Shen Guogong, and the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate was changed to the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and Li Hong was appointed as the Metropolitan Protector.

In addition to the jurisdiction of the original Anbei Metropolitan Governorate, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate increased the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the Wuzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and at the same time controlled the Dongxi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the Black Chezi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

The original Zhenwu army, except for Yunzhou and Ulzhou, was assigned to the capital of Anbei.

At the same time, the Lulong Army Jiedu envoy was revoked, the Andong Protectorate was retained, and the Lulong Protectorate was still under the jurisdiction of Lu Long's hometown, with Liu Rengong as the capital protector, and the Yiwu Army Jiedu made Wang Hao and the pseudo-Liang general Ge Congzhou as the deputy capital protector.

The Andong Metropolitan Protectorate has jurisdiction over the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, the Fuzhou Governor's Mansion, the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion and the Jizhou Governor's Mansion.

Among them, Liu Rengong concurrently served as the governor of Youzhou, the leader of Xixi went to Zhu as the governor of the Governor of Yanzhou, Gao Siji was the governor of Yingzhou, and Zhu Jin was the governor of Jizhou.

Among them, the Fuzhou Governor's Mansion has jurisdiction over Youzhou, Xinzhou, and Confucianism, Youzhou Governor's Mansion has jurisdiction over Youzhou, Zhuozhou, Mozhou, Yingzhou and Shunzhou, Yingzhou Governor's Mansion has jurisdiction over Pingzhou and Yingzhou, and Jizhou Governor's Mansion has jurisdiction over Jizhou, Shunzhou, Danzhou and Luanzhou (newly established, located north of the Luanhe River, near present-day Chengde).

In this way, although Liu Rengong served as the protector of the Andong Metropolitan Government, his power was weakened. In the past, Lulong was divided into four parts, although the core Youzhou and other places still belonged to Liu Rengong's control, but the territory was greatly reduced.

Although Liu Rengong was dissatisfied in his heart, he did not dare to come out to oppose it, and the imperial army was victorious, so he naturally would not be so uninteresting.

Although his influence was limited to the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, after this appointment was issued, he appointed his eldest son Liu Shouwen as the Assassin of Yingzhou, his second son Liu Shouguang as the Assassin of Youzhou, and his adopted son Zhao Ba as the Assassin of Shunzhou to ensure control of Youzhou.

Most of the assassin histories of the states under the Andong Protectorate are the old departments of Lulong, and only the four prefectures of Luanzhou, Fuzhou, Xinzhou and Pingzhou are selected by the imperial court from other places.

Except for the deputy capital of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate who was transferred from Zhou and Changshi from Chang'an, the others were still the old Ministry of Lulong.

In this way, although the imperial court did not actually control Lu Long, it divided Lu Long into four and drove several big nails in Lu Long.

It was impossible for Lu Long to rebel as he had done before, and at the same time, the imperial court had infiltrated Lu Long to ensure its influence on Lu Long.

The Yiwu Army was immediately abolished, and several prefectures under its jurisdiction were merged into Hebei Province.

Lu Long's power was divided into four, which was naturally what the imperial court was willing to see, but the imperial court did not intend to start a war with the Khitan for the time being, but planned to use the power of Tules, the king of Dongxi, Heichezi Murowei and Lu Long to contain the Khitan.

It's not that no one suggested going north, but something important happened suddenly, which made the court give up the idea of going north.

Of course, it is not westward, but south.

To be precise, it was the southwest direction, and something happened on Nanzhao's side.

In the eleventh year of Qianning, the Nanzhao Qingping official (i.e., the prime minister) instructed Yang Deng, a close minister of Long Shun, to kill Long Shun in Shanxian City, and then supported Long Shun's son Shun Huazhen to succeed him.

Since the Qingping official Yang Qiqiu and others were killed by Li Yi's order, there are no more ministers in Nanzhao who can take charge alone, and after the failure of Long Shun's courtship, he has become increasingly obscene and has killed ministers at every turn, resulting in chaos in Nanzhao.

At this time, Zheng Maisi, the official of Qingping, gradually grasped the power of the court, so he borrowed the hands of others to kill Long Shun.

At this time, the political situation in Nanzhao was already chaotic, and although Long Shun was killed by his close minister Yang Deng, not all Nanzhao ministers were fools, which can be said to have intensified the contradictions.

Several generals loyal to Long Shun wanted to clear the monarch's side and kill Zheng Maisi, but they were all executed by Zheng Maisi.

At this time, Duan Baolong, the general of the Nanzhao Huichuan Governor's Mansion, killed the Governor of the Huichuan Governor's Mansion appointed by Zheng Maisi, and then attached the Huichuan Governor's Mansion to the Tang Dynasty to seek self-protection.

The Huichuan Governor's Mansion was an administrative division of Nanzhao, but its jurisdictions were previously seized from the Tang Dynasty.

Previously, the Huichuan Governor's Mansion was an important fortress for Nanzhao to resist and attack the southwestern border of the Tang Dynasty, but now it has chosen to return to Shun under the leadership of Duan Baolong.

This news is tantamount to being more important than the matter of Lu Long.

Sichuan Province and Shannan West Road are the most important grain producing areas, population gathering places, and important tax places in the Tang Dynasty, but they are not safe, and Nanzhao is a sharp sword hanging over the head of Sichuan Road.

Although Nanzhao no longer has the ability to violate the realm, it is not the same thing that the sword on his head has been hanging.

And Duan Baolong surrendered with the Huichuan Governor's Mansion, which undoubtedly provided a good offensive bridgehead for Datang.

When the report reached Chang'an, Li Ye was overjoyed and directly ordered Zuo Longwujun to immediately lead the army into the Huichuan Governor's Mansion and control this place first, so as not to cause extraneous trouble.

Regarding the situation in Nanzhao at this time, although Li Ye got a lot of information through Jinyiwei, he didn't expect Zheng Maihei to be so bold and dare to kill the king.

But this gave him a good opportunity, he originally wanted to pacify Nanzhao, but now Nanzhao has civil strife, but it has given Datang a golden opportunity.

In addition to this matter, Li Ye didn't pay so much attention to the things outside the northern Sai, so it was more reliable to solve the Nanzhao first.