As the Tang army from all walks of life is getting closer and closer, the city of Pyongyang is also more turbulent, and middle and low-level generals like Jin Chao have formed a group, and began to let more and more generals who feel that the ship of Yuangai Suwen is not reliable to join, of course, there are also some of them who took the initiative to say surrender, and in the end, those diehards who were invited, but did not agree to join, for the sake of secrecy, they chose to assassinate them all, anyway, it is good to blame the cause of death of these people on the Tang army secret agents, so, the Tang army has not yet arrived, In the city of Pyongyang, people are dying every day, and some generals and Yuangai Suven's diehards are also dead, and everyone is panicking.

The terrain of the peninsula is actually not flat, after the beginning of spring, there is often rain, so Li Shimin's various armies are not fast, along the way, Li Shimin will watch the twists and turns from Chang'an, most things, in fact, Fang Xuanling has already helped him deal with it.

For example, the revision of the Marriage Law.

After getting the data from Sun Xiangfu's report, Wei Zheng and other ministers applied to Fang Xuanling to check some data on birth deaths in Guanzhong and various places, and found that the data was only worse than the data compiled by Shanyang Medical College, after all, Shanyang Medical College has done a good job in preparing for midwifery in all aspects, but there is still such a high failure rate, and the situation is naturally even worse in other places with worse medical conditions.

However, after the study of Ma Boiling Soup, Shanyang Medical College has carried out caesarean section many times in a row during this time, and there are two examples of failure, the reason is that it is still an ultra-young pregnancy, and the pregnant woman has a heavy hemorrhage in the very early stage of fetal movement, and after being sent to the medical school, she only has time to take out the child by caesarean section, and the adult has already died.

Therefore, now the ministers who are accustomed to rational analysis of problems unanimously feel that this should be changed, at least, first cancel the previous encouragement of marriage and childbearing by the imperial court, and cancel the age limit set for marriage and childbearing, which is not mandatory, but at least advocate that women only marry and have children after the age of eighteen.

This round of marriage and childbirth policy propaganda reform, but unexpectedly promoted the economy of Shanyang, many powerful families, and even rich businessmen, have bought villas in Shanyang, the reason is that it is safe to give birth to a child in Shanyang Medical College, and the women in the family, as long as they are pregnant, go to Shanyang to live, and when it is time to give birth, go to the medical school to give birth, which can basically ensure that the child can be born smoothly, which is undoubtedly good news for these people with economic strength.

This phenomenon has alleviated the commercial depression in Shanyang caused by the large-scale relocation of merchants to Dingxiang, Wulan and other cities, after all, a large number of rich people with strong consumption power have come, making up for the previous situation that the consumer market at the bottom of Shanyang is too strong and the high-end consumer market is insufficient.

There are also some specific arrangements for Yunnan County, after Shelong strongly absorbed the population of the various departments, it has become a new governance difficulty in the Tang Dynasty, Fang Xuanling's approach is to directly send officials, set up prefectures and counties, and at the same time, let Chai Shao help Shelong, and organize the surrendered clan soldiers into the Annan Army, the number is tentatively set at 80,000, these sergeants will be in service all year round, and live on the money and food issued by the imperial court, mainly responsible for defending the threat from the Tubo Plateau, the Pi State, and the Heizhi tribes further south.

Fang Xuanling's approach was very much agreed by Li Shimin, and he was summed up in the Tang Dynasty as a whole in Yunnan, there will be 12 states, more than 30 counties, including Tengzhou, which directly includes the entire western Yunnan Plateau, and Tianzhu, the border of Biguo, as well as Yongzhou, Huizhou, Shanzhou, Tuozhou, Quzhou, Jingzhou, Langzhou, Pennzhou, Wangzhou, Victoria, Maozhou and other states, distributed throughout Yunnan, will govern Dali City around it.

By the power of the Tang army's victory, Shelong took one step in place, and detained all the tribal leaders in the capital of the original Baizi Kingdom, now Dali City, later, he will escort these people to Chang'an, and scatter the people of the various departments, and distribute them in various states, among which Tengzhou and Dali, which have a relatively large territory, will have 300,000 people, and the rest of the states are tens of thousands, ranging from more than 100,000 to 100,000, with 12 states in Yunnan, more than 3,000 miles from east to west, north and south, to feed these two million people, it is not difficult.

Shelong also sent people who knew how to collect and deal with various medicinal materials, tea, and other special products, and initially managed the people of various states, which was the only legacy left to Shelong after Wang Hao tossed around in Yunnan.

After these people are scattered in various states, the number of special products collected will be even more, as long as Datang still needs these things in China, the lives of the people in various states will definitely be much better than before.

This is not a big deal, how to bring Tuyuhun and the places of the party departments into control, Fang Xuanling has also made arrangements.

Last year, Du Zhenglun led officials from the Ministry of Commerce to develop more than a dozen state-owned enterprises in Shannan Province and the Yangtze River Basin, and is now very keen to help the country develop such industries.

With the output and supply of Tuyuhun's salt ponds, not only will the price of salt in Datang drop by more than half, and there will be no shortage of salt, but it will also drive the entire production and management system, at least 100,000 people will be employed, and more than one million yuan of profits and taxes will be created for the country every year.

Fang Xuanling agreed to the request of the Ministry of Commerce, and set the old land of Tuyuhun and the party departments as Ningchuan Dao, with Ningzhou, Xiazhou, Chazhou, Hanzhou, Haizhou, Baizhou, Yuzhou, and other seven prefectures, and appointed Li Ji as the governor of Ningchuan Dao, commanding 50,000 troops, garrisoning places, and about the original Tuyuhun under his rule, more than 300,000 households and 780,000 people in various party departments.

This is not counting the more than 200,000 captured young Zhuang soldiers from various departments, a small part of these people were assigned to the Ministry of Commerce to develop salt ponds, and a large part of them were the same as the Tubo people, in the industry in Guanzhong, became heavy laborers, as long as there is not a sufficient number of young and strong, those newly ruled places will not be chaotic, and in the transition years, the lives of the local people are better, and then these people will be gradually released, and they will have a good life after they go back, and there will be no more chaos.

With Ningchuan Road and Yunnan County sandwiching the Tubo Plateau on the left and right, the land of Shuzhong is basically not directly bordered by Tubo, and the defensive pressure will be much smaller, and the main force of Chai Shao's army will be withdrawn to Shuzhong after the overall smooth transition of Yunnan, and at that time, only a small number of standing troops will be left in Shuzhong, and more than half of the people will be withdrawn to Chang'an.

And what really made Fang Xuanling unable to decide was the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate set up by Sun Xiangfu, the political deployment at this level must be arranged by the emperor, it is a land of more than a dozen countries, more than 7,000 miles from east to west, north and south, much larger than the territory of Yunnan and Ningchuan Road combined, with a total population of up to two or three million people.

If all officials are sent to set up yamen in accordance with the regulations of the Tang Dynasty, it is estimated that thousands of officials of the same grade will have to be sent over, and the current situation of the imperial court will not be able to send them at all.

"Hehe, I used to only think about conquering the Quartet, but I didn't think that after conquering the Quartet, there would be so many headaches in governance."

It is more difficult to keep a business than to start a business, this is a truth that has long been verified by later generations, and the territory laid by the Yuan Dynasty is big enough! However, this dynasty did not survive for even a hundred years, and it fell apart, which shows that the bigger the country, the better, the governance cannot keep up, and it collapses quickly.

"Your Majesty, since Zhengming just suggested that His Majesty send a few officials who are good at handling ethnic disputes to the Western Regions, then, Your Majesty can allow it, these newly subjugated countries are still incomprehensible to my Tang Dynasty, language, and writing, and suddenly manage them in our way, I'm afraid they won't adapt, we just need to manage the military well, and don't let them rebel, local civil affairs, you can let them maintain a certain degree of autonomy, and when we have our hands free up in the future, there are enough talents, and then it's not too late to gradually strengthen management."

Not to mention that it is now the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, that is, during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the scholars of the Tang Dynasty emerged, and they also faced many problems in governing the Western Regions.

"The pharmacist has been to the Western Regions, and he knows more about the situation there than I do, do you think that if you want to govern that there like my Central Plains, it will take a few years?"

"How many years? I'm afraid that the work of several generations may not be able to govern it to the extent of Shanyang and Dingxiang. Li Jing shook his head and said.

"Why?"

"The difference is too big, not only the culture, the racial gap, than the Han people and Baiyue, the Southern Barbarians, the Turkic people are much bigger, those blonde and blue-eyed, red-haired Hu people in the Western Regions, we just want to know them, it is difficult, the most important thing is that the distance is too far, it is impossible to govern synchronously, starting from Chang'an to the west, to the Broken Leaf City, it is a distance of more than 8,000 miles, and then to the west past Hengros, and really began to enter those areas where there are more Hu people in the Western Regions, that is at least thousands of miles away, riding back and forth, It's been nearly a year······"

Hu people, and the Hu people of the Western Regions, in fact, are two concepts, like Turkic, Xue Yantuo, Khotan, Qiuzi, Gaochang, Tuyuhun and the like, located in the later Qinghai, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Mongolia Hu people, although there is a slight difference between the face and living habits and the Han people, but in fact, they all belong to the characteristics of the Asian yellow race, at least everyone is black eyes, black hair, yellow skin, as long as the words are the same, if the eating habits are comparable, after living together for one or two generations, the difference is not very obvious.

But the Hu people in the Western Regions are different, after Hengros, to Persia, Western Europe, the Hu people over there, they are the real Hu people, skin color, body shape, hair on the very different, like Sun Xiangfu with face blindness, will be completely unbearable, the same, their senses for the Han people, will also be the same, like the Tang Army wearing standard military uniforms, as long as the body is comparable, they can't tell who is who, want to be in such a huge difference, it is not easy to integrate everyone.

After listening to Li Jing's words, Li Shimin thought about it for a long time before he said, "I plan to use a large number of Hu people as officials to govern these new frontiers for the imperial court, does the pharmacist think it is feasible?" ”

Li Jing nodded and replied, "Actually, this is an inevitable trend, with the current territory of my Tang Dynasty, relying on the Han people alone, it is no longer possible to govern, and among the countries of the Western Regions, there are indeed some talents who are literate and ink, and know etiquette, and there are countries like Goguryeo, Silla and Baekje, there are millions of people, and it is not up to local talented people to govern, even if all the people who can read and write in my Tang Dynasty are sent out, it may not be enough." ”

Li Shimin heard this, nodded, and began to reply to Fang Xuanling's request, first ordered Cheng Zhijie to be the governor of Anxi, and then set up four Zhichong Mansion to assist him, and his subordinate generals Qiao Shiwang, Guo Xiaoke, Zhi Zhi Sili, and Qi Bi He Li four people are the lieutenants of Zhichong, from Zhichong Mansion, 20,000 elites can be summoned from the local area, and 10,000 Tang troops can be recruited from the Zhichong Mansion to enrich the subordinate troops, that is to say, in the future, it will be mainly by these four Zhichong Mansions, a total of 120,000 soldiers and horses, to guard the boundary of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

In addition to the specific requirements in the military aspect, in the political aspect, Li Shimin has relaxed the requirements to a large extent, the former lords of various countries, the acting officials, can retain almost all the right to govern the people of their land, as long as according to the Tang tax system, pay much lower taxes than they used to pay to the Western Turks, and the excess money is all at their disposal, however, their royal family members and main officials must immediately leave for Chang'an to be crowned, Li Shimin wants to hold a grand ceremony in Chang'an after taking Goguryeo, announcing to the whole world, The sovereignty of the Tang Dynasty over the existing territory.

Of course, there is also the factor of showing off his personal exploits to the whole world, and in his heart, he always wants to eliminate the influence of improper position.